Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 1

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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OPERATIONS IN SEARCH OF SANSKRIT MSS.
No. 62.- Sildngasûri's This manuscript was written in Samyat commentary on the Achd. 1303=A.D., 1247, when Visaladeva was rugasůtram.
king in Anahila-pâtak, for the use of this great minister Tejahpala,
No. 111.-Vivekamanjari In the last lines of his book A sad a is of Asada.
nued
called the son of Raja Ka tu k a, the ornament of the race of Bhillamâla. Bhillamåla is the Sanskrit form of the name of the town now called Bhinmal in Marwar. Asada wrote in the year whose sign is the eight vasus, the four oceans, and the twelve suns, i. e. 1248=A.D. 1192.
This is a hand-book for poets, written No. 120.—The Kavisiksha of Jayamangalacharya.
by a Jain at the time when the great
Jayasimha was king (A.D. 1094–1143) His book contains at least one verse which should not be allowed to perish :
न कवित्वमधर्माय मृतये दंडनाय वा।
कुकवित्वं पुनः साक्षान्यूनमाहुर्मनीषिणः ॥ "It is no sin not to write verses; for that a man need neither die nor take a beating : but to write bad verses, this is a fault in the eyes of all wise men."
This fragment preserves for as the fact No. 130.-The - - -
that Jin a bh a dramuni, pupil of mêlapagaranakaha.
Salibhadra, wrote in Sarivat 1204=A.D 1148.
A complete copy of the work already No. 149.-Siddhasenasů. ri's commentary or Nemi- noticed under No. 41. The text ends
with a Jain rendering of the Roman roddh&ra.
poet's
"dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex," which the commentator is at some pains to reconcile with the indifference that befits a saint:
जाव जुई भुवणत्तयमेयं रविससिसुमेरुगिरिजुत्तम् ।। पवयणसारुद्धारो ता नंदउ बऊ पडिज्जंतो ।। ६ ।।